“Breaker Boys” | Commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Pottsville Maroon’s lost NFL title

Posted on by Jake Wynn

A century ago, a professional football team from Pottsville, PA bulldozed its way to an NFL title - only to have the championship yanked away in one of the NFL's first great scandals. In this piece, I look back at the 1925 Pottsville Maroons and share a new 100th-anniversary excerpt from David Fleming’s Breaker Boys, the book that brought their story roaring back to life. Read the full story.

How Schuylkill County football fans “watched” the Pottsville Maroon’s 1925 NFL Championship

Posted on by Jake Wynn

On December 6, 1925, Schuylkill County football fans gathered at Pottsville’s Hippodrome Theatre to “watch” the Pottsville Maroons claim the NFL Championship, decades before the Super Bowl was born. A private telegraph line provided real-time updates from Chicago’s Comiskey Park, allowing fans to experience the historic game as it happened. Discover how Coal Region football fans celebrated their team’s victory. Read the full story.